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2. Big state schools have EVERYTHING any person could really want to study

Like "elevator surfing" and "funneling"? Puh-leez! State colleges are just as bad (or worse) as Catholic colleges. Frankly, most college educations are worse than nothing. I'm pinning my hopes for the disintegration of academia on the on-line University of Phoenix's of the world.

Well, I am pursuing an on-line Religious Education Master's degree. You cannot believe what I am up against both from my professor, the textbook and my fellow students. We are doing a spiritual "self analysis" assesment using a color-grading system and Gail Sheehy's stages of spiritual development, and Fowler's. Ugh. Anyway in an online debate, one guy says thank goodness we live when we live regarding children's spiritual development because we are now dealing with the bad ol days of Pre-Vatican II. I asked him to explain how children't spiritual development was impacted by Pre-Vatican II and he neatly side-stepped the question by ranting on about Pre-Vat II being all about "clericalism" and the mistreatment of woman. I pointed out that by any measure, Pre-Vat II did not enjoy the wholesale loss of faith, loss of religious orders (clericalism, I guess in his view) divorce, sexual alienation between the sexes (which he disputed) and general all around crappy condition of the world today. He said pre-Vat II clericalism is the reason for the sex scandals today, I agree with Weigel that we are experiencing every bit as much clericalism today as ever before; the secreting away of predatory pederasts by the powers that be is sheer clericalism. Anyway, this on-line thing will take a while too, because the INFECTION IS EVERYWHERE!!! V's wife.

Like "elevator surfing" and "funneling"? Puh-leez! State colleges are just as bad (or worse) as Catholic colleges.

Of course they are, but at least you recognize them for what they are. They do not masquerade as "Catholic."

Frankly, most college educations are worse than nothing.

Absolutely correct. But one does need to make a living in this world. State schools are the quickest, easiest, cheapest, and least dangerous way to get a degree.

I'm pinning my hopes for the disintegration of academia on the on-line University of Phoenix's of the world.

Those of us with children of college age have to do something in the meantime. For example, my daughter did the summer program at Christendom, but she thinks it's crazy to spend 4 years and $75,000 studying Plato when you can read those books on your own. She wants to be a nurse, and she can get an RN in 2 years, for practically no money, while living at home, and attending the Latin Mass every Sunday. Sounds like a better deal all around.